Stuff Here, Stuff There, and Stuff Everywhere

October 11, 2021 As the house empties out, more stuff has been put into storage or given away. We have brought food and many other items to the RV. Some of the items we brought to the RV will go into storage, as we just don’t have room in the RV. The formerly uncluttered RV […]

Getting Movers in to Move the Big Furniture

October 7, 2021 Yesterday, Bruce tried taking apart the Danish hutch. It didn’t break down into as small as pieces as he expected. Since it didn’t break down into small pieces, we realized we needed help. Bruce found a moving company that could come today and he found conditioned storage for the furniture. He is […]

Closing Moved to October 15th

October 6, 2021 Yesterday, our real estate agent contacted us to see if we were okay to move closing up to October 15th. We said yes. Now, we have one less week to get everything done. The rooms are emptying out. The living room is now empty.I have most of the kitchen cleared out. We […]

Things to Do to Get Ready for the Retirement RV Dream

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More Packing Up the House

September 26, 2021 This weekend, Bruce and I have been going through our list of things to dispose, store, and take with us. Bruce sold our bedroom set and the guest bed is on Facebook Marketplace. We started packing up our art. I am going to really miss our art. I set up a table […]

Fingers Crossed – House Is Under Contract Again

September 12, 2021 We had two good offers this weekend! Our house is now under contract again. If all goes well, it will be sold in October.

All Clothes Moved to RV

May 13, 2021 We have been packing up the items in the house that we want to keep long term and moving them into storage. Bruce and I donated two large bags of clothes to Goodwill. I donated a lot of my shoes as well. I was still amazed at how many clothes I had […]

Progress and Knocked Silly

May 5, 2021 On Monday, we had a structural engineer come and look at the house. There were some cracks in the sheetrock along the stairs that worried our realtor. I know we have shifting soil in this area, so her worries were catching. The structural engineer looked at everything and said there had been […]

Things to Do to Get Ready for the Retirement RV Dream

Getting ready

Busy, Busy Friday

April 7, 2021 Friday, April 2nd, was a very busy day for me. I had my 20 year anniversary at my job! I can now keep my health insurance with the company. When I started the job, I didn’t think I’d be there for more than a few years. Those of us in IT tend […]